It’ll go down to the usual 3. Chelsea have had a piss easy start and have only played one top team (City) and lost. Villa will drop off due to fixture congestion.
i think it will be between Liverpool and Arsenal this year unless City isnt punished at all… even with the minimum possible punishment, they will get deduction of few points which should be enough for us.
Liverpool also had a favourable start except away at OT, so they are gonna drop points surely
City will not get punished so soon.
The litigation, followed by an appeal followed by another appeal, will take years. Just getting here took four years.
So, if any of you have hopes for punishment during the title chase, fend those hopes away because it isn’t happening.
I think something like 86-88 points is likely to be enough this year. Pep will figure out how to keep City very very good but without Rodri they won’t have the same consistency. They also really don’t have the deepest squad at this point and six of the players they rely on most are on the wrong side of 30. They will struggle with the congested fixture list even more than us. Liverpool seem potentially quite good but I haven’t seen anything yet to suggest they can hit 90 points. They benefited a lot from playing in the Europa League last year in terms of resting VVD and Salah and those guys are a year older and will now be playing both league and CL. If either one gets injured or just loses form for a couple months they won’t be able to keep up the necessary level.
If we have a season on par with last year we will win it I think.
City will drop plenty points without Rodri this season. Especially games like Newcastle, Villa away from home. And still not convinced of Liverpool as contenders despite their flying start. If we have a half decent season this year, think we’ll win it.